An amazing mixture of aircraft types today, with Typhoons, Tornado F-3s and F-15s playing overhead as well. I wish every day was as good this.

For the Picture Police: Copyright Max Bryansky

Lightning F3, 23 Squadron, RAF Leuchars 1970s

While walking through airliners.net today, I came across this P-3. Even with all my "vast knowledge" I don't know what the thing in the center of the belly is for. Dave? Gordon? Rotorhead? Alf? Mitchell? Anyone? I save the entire comment on the plane in the file name. Google didn't give me...

Good impression of the burnt-metal appearance on rear fuselage.

A NASA CV-990, modified as a Landing Systems Research Aircraft (LSRA), is serviced on the ramp at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California, before a test of the space shuttle landing gear system. The space shuttle landing gear test unit, operated by a high-pressure hydraulic...

This post is about 85mb. It is a book. It is in pdf format. There are no sneaky little bugs hiding in it. I post this 'cause it's a GOOD book. *Lots* of tech stuff, lots of history, tail numbers, named birds, all the auger-jobs and around 200 hundred pictures - color and B/W. Some may have...

G'day All, it's a long time since I have posted a group of pictures here, but finally got some time to process another roll of negatives. This is about 20 of them all dating to the early 60's at Kinsford Smith in Sydney. A lot of them were taken from the tower & on the ground next to the...

The British Airways 747 that flew threw a cloud of volcanic ash in 1982 while on a flight to Perth. Any post-incident pictures would be appreciated. -- Alan Erskine

My own translation of the panel in front of the Elytroplan If you are more fluent in french that I am in english feel free to correct my text) AFAIK it is the only one where you may found some trace of humor. Charles de Rouge is one of those many inventors Who have supporters persuaded that they...